my pleasure! I'm always mad at myself for still being a NYT subscriber but at least I can share articles like this (the good stuff that they're still publishing once you get past the dreck of both-sidesing, bad lifehacks, and affiliate-link sections)

I'm just outside of Boulder. Pre-pandemic I worked in Denver and was very close to being car-free, but public transit - which was improving - took a bad hit in 2020 and has never recovered

This photo of one of the hacked variable message signs in Denver, via @nosquish.bsky.social, is a work of art.

That's a beautiful and haunting story, thank you. Twenty-seven is far too young to lose a father, especially in this way.

Nothing could be better for Denver and for the entire Front Range than a radical transformation away from car dependency.

I quit smoking 40 years ago and I distinctly remember taking a coat out of a closet a year after quitting and being repelled by the smell of smoke embedded in the cloth. Ugh, I smelled like that.

I've never seen it. I will now, with sadness.

Heh. Took my 2005 Honda for its emissions test yesterday (it passed). I said to the cashier, bet you're not seeing many 20-year-old cars, and she said not usually but she'd had a handful the day before.

Score of 20. We had five sets of encylopedias in my house growing up. (Houses - we moved a lot.)

Ah, sorry to miss this!

I'm just about to start my French lessons for the day and this is going to be in my head the whole time

Purchased! Thank you so much.

Betcha Polis will do it for his buddy. He only has to cosplay as a Democrat for a little while longer.

Would be interesting to know what her advance was for this tripe.

more unpaid labor? No thanks